What are the ways to improve self-awareness at work?

If you want to improve your self-cognition, you can make a breakthrough from three aspects: learning, thinking and practice, so as to achieve the unity of knowing and doing, thus truly improving your self-cognition.

I recently read an article saying that every penny we earn is the realization of self-awareness. I think this sentence is very reasonable. We often say that the thinking of the poor and the thinking of the rich are not self-cognitive differences in some sense. Let's share the ways to improve self-awareness at work ~

1, targeted learning

Learning mentioned here is not blind reading, and reading without purpose is completely ineffective. If you want to improve your self-awareness at work, you must learn job-related skills, whether it is business skills, management skills or communication skills.

We need to set a learning goal for ourselves and then complete it step by step according to the goal.

For example, my recent goal is to learn to do PPT. First of all, I found a lot of materials for PPT on the website and built a material library myself. Then I went to find some books about color matching to see how to make a better PPT；; Then go to the website to find tips for making PPT; Finally, try to make a complete PPT.

In order to achieve my goal of completing a PPT, I need to learn all aspects and understand the knowledge that I have never been exposed to before. This is an improvement of self-awareness.

2. Learn to think and take the initiative.

Many times, we will be influenced by our laziness, unwilling to think, do things when they come, and get used to everything step by step. But what about us? We know that the environment in which we work is changing at any time, and only active thinking can improve our self-awareness.

There is a working state like this: I am very busy at work every day, and I may work overtime on weekends. I used the same skills and repeated the same work, but I didn't get the desired return, so I began to complain, and then I put in a new round of efforts and continued to do nothing.

This is the state of no initiative and no learning to think. We don't need to paralyze ourselves with diligence, but at the same time, we should think about how to win more for ourselves, break the inherent thinking and learn how to do better, so that our self-awareness can be improved.

3. Be brave in practice

In the workplace, we often hear the voice: I know everything, but I can't do it. Actually, I often say that myself. But we really understand this truth, but things are not necessarily impossible, but we don't have enough courage to practice. This may be the so-called cognitive limitation.

As the old saying goes, if young people don't work hard, old people will be sad. If you don't practice, your cognition will stay there forever, and it has no chance to be improved. For example, if I don't try to use new methods when making forms, I can't learn simpler and faster processing skills.

Therefore, we need to break the inherent cognitive level through practice and improve our self-awareness with new knowledge and skills.

The so-called self-awareness can be simply understood as expanding one's knowledge. So we need to constantly learn knowledge, think about the structure of this knowledge, and gain more new knowledge of our own through practice? Knowledge can improve our self-awareness in our work.